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Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: At Least 76 iOS Apps Are Vulnerable to Attacks appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 04:01:00 -0800
Twitter is trying to curb harassment. Again.
Twitter VP of Engineering Ed Ho this week announced three changes that Twitter believes will end its reputation as a haven for trolls, haters, spammers, misogynists, racists and idiots.
Two years ago, Twitter’s then-CEO Dick Costolo was quoted in a leaked memo saying that “We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we’ve sucked at it for years.”
Twitter’s reputation may be hurting its bottom line. The company this week reported its slowest quarter for revenue growth since the company went public. Twitter consistently loses about $100 million per quarter. Advertising is weak. Revenue is down. User growth is flat.
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Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:48:00 -0800
Privacy advocates are claiming in court that an FBI hacking operation to take down a child pornography site was unconstitutional and violated international law.
That’s because the operation involved the FBI hacking 8,700 computers in 120 countries, based on a single warrant, they said.
“How will other countries react to the FBI hacking in their jurisdictions without prior consent?” wrote Scarlet Kim, a legal officer with U.K.-based Privacy International.
On Friday, that group, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, filed briefs in a lawsuit involving the FBI’s hacking operation against Playpen. The child pornography site was accessible through Tor, a browser designed for anonymous web surfing. But in 2014, the FBI managed to take it over.
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Credit to Author: Ken McAlpine| Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 09:49:47 -0800
For many of us in the Security Industry, the possibility of using Internet of Things (IoT) devices as a launchpad for an attack has been mostly theoretical. However, information obtained after the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the services offered by DYN.com appears to show that the threat is real and immediate. The definition of IoT is often a little vague. Generally speaking, I consider any device with an IP address associated with it to be some sort of an IoT device, though not all of them are problems. The ones…
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Credit to Author: DealPost Team| Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:04:00 -0800
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Credit to Author: Blair Hanley Frank| Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 10:47:00 -0800
Companies concerned about cybersecurity have a fleet of new Microsoft tools coming their way. The company announced a host of new security capabilities Friday morning as part of the run-up to the massive RSA security conference next week in San Francisco.
On the Windows front, the company announced that it’s adding the ability to use on-premises Active Directory with Windows Hello, its system for allowing biometric-based logins with Windows 10. Microsoft also launched new tools to help organizations get more use out of mobile device management products by giving them tools to migrate group policy settings to cloud-managed devices.
What’s more, Microsoft has launched a new tool that’s designed to help customers configure Surface hardware, doing things like disabling the tablets’ cameras.
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A lot has changed since 2002, the first year I attended the RSA Conference. First, the event was being held in San Jose, California, which is a huge difference from the massive Moscone Center in San Francisco. Second, instead of the Monday night reception format as it is now with vendors staffing their booths for…
Up to 20 attackers or groups of attackers are defacing WordPress websites that haven’t yet applied a recent patch for a critical vulnerability.
The vulnerability, located in the platform’s REST API, allows unauthenticated attackers to modify the content of any post or page within a WordPress site. The flaw was fixed in WordPress 4.7.2, released on Jan. 26, but the WordPress team did not publicly disclose the vulnerability’s existence until a week later, to allow enough time for a large number of users to deploy the update.
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